Prioritization within a session over internet protocol (SOIP) network
View Patent ↗A method includes receiving, at a session controller, session data from a session-detail record. The session data is associated with at least a portion of a call over a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network. A priority indicator associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) packet transmitted over the call is modified at the session controller based on the session data. The priority indicator indicates a priority to transmit the IP packet.
1. A method, comprising:
receiving, at a session controller, session data from a session-detail record, the session data being associated with at least a portion of a call over a Session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network, the session controller being a session aware component;
modifying, at the session controller, a priority indicator associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) packet transmitted over the call based on the session data, the priority indicator indicates a priority to transmit the IP packet, wherein the priority indicator is a first priority indicator and the IP packet is a first IP packet; and
identifying, in a priority database accessed by the session controller, a transmission priority value associated with the first IP packet;
sending an instruction to an endpoint, the instruction being configured to trigger the endpoint to modify, based on the transmission priority value, a second priority indicator associated with a second IP packet associated with the call, wherein the endpoint does not have access to the priority database and is not configured to modify the second priority indicator associated with the second IP packet until the instruction is received.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the session data is associated with a session of the call.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the session data includes a value of at least one of a session layer parameter or an extrinsic parameter.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the IP packet is from a plurality of IP packets, the modifying includes modifying a plurality of priority indicators, each priority indicator from the plurality of priority indicators is uniquely associated with an IP packet from the plurality of IP packets.
5. The method of clam 1 , further comprising receiving a threshold condition from the priority database, the modifying includes modifying when the threshold condition is satisfied based on the session data.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the priority indicator is a type-of-service (ToS) parameter, the ToS parameter is associated with a header of the IP packet.
7. A method, comprising:
receiving a first IP packet being associated with a first session within a SoIP network, the first IP packet being associated with at least one of a session-layer parameter or an extrinsic parameter; and
utilizing a priority database to identify a transmission priority value associated with at least one of a value of the session layer parameter or a value of the extrinsic parameter;
modifying a priority indicator associated with at least one of the first IP packet or a second IP packet based on the at least one of the value of the session layer parameter or the value of the extrinsic parameter, the priority indicator indicates a priority to transmit the at least one of the first IP packet or the second IP packet over at least one of the first session or a second session; and
sending an instruction to an endpoint, the instruction being configured to trigger the endpoint to modify, based on the transmission priority value,. the priority indicator associated with the second IP packet associated with the call, wherein the endpoint does not have access to the priority database and is not configured to modify the priority indicator associated with the second IP packet until the instruction is received.
8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising identifying a transmission priority value associated with the media content packet based on a quality-of-service parameter, the modifying being based on the transmission priority value.
9. The method of claim 7 , wherein the modifying includes modifying based on a threshold condition included in the priority database,
the method further comprising modifying the threshold condition in the priority database via a user interface.
10. The method of claim 7 , wherein the session layer parameter includes a content type, the modifying is based on the content type.
11. The method of claim 7 , wherein the priority indicator is a type-of-service (ToS) parameter, the ToS parameter is associated with a header of the at least one of the first IP packet or the second IP packet.
12. The method of claim 7 , wherein the modifying includes modifying the priority indicator from a default priority indicator.
13. The method of claim 7 , wherein the second IP packet is associated with at least one of an endpoint, the first IP packet, the first session, or the second session.
14. The method of claim 7 , wherein the second IP packet is associated with at least one of the session layer parameter or the extrinsic parameter.
15. The method of claim 8 , wherein the transmission priority value is associated with a virtual routing partition established at the first session controller.
16. The method of claim 7 , wherein the session layer parameter is a layer-5 session-layer parameter.
17. An apparatus comprising:
a database configured to store a transmission priority value and an associated threshold condition, the threshold condition being based on at least one of a value of a session layer parameter or a value of an extrinsic parameter; and
a processor coupled to the database, the processor configured to receive at least one of the value of the session layer parameter or the value of the extrinsic parameter, the value of the session layer parameter and the value of the extrinsic parameter being associated with an IP packet associated with a call within a SoIP network, the processor configured to associate the transmission priority value with the IP packet when the threshold condition is satisfied based on the at least one of the value of the session layer parameter or the value of the extrinsic parameter, wherein the IP packet is a first IP packet; and
an output port coupled to the processor, the output port is configured to send an instruction to an endpoint, the instruction being configured to trigger the endpoint to modify, based on the transmission priority value, a second priority indicator associated with a second IP packet associated with the call, wherein the endpoint does not have access to the database and is not configured to modify the second priority indicator associated with the second IP packet until the instruction is received.
18. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the processor is configured to modify a priority indicator associated with the IP packet based on the transmission priority value, the priority indicator indicates a priority to transmit the IP packet over a session associated with the call.
19. The apparatus of claim 17 , wherein the IP packet is a first IP packet, the processor is configured to modify a priority indicator associated with a second IP packet based on the transmission priority value, the priority indicator indicates a priority to transmit the second IP packet over the SoIP network, the second IP packet being associated with the call.